“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You never seem jointly to satisfy yourselves with any method or program or routine that works—in other words, that gives you peace of mind.

You each saw a program about animal motion. [...]

Now there are books programming out-of-body activity; millions of you are told that when you leave your body you will meet this demon or that demon, or this or that angry god. [...]

(10:09.) If you mistake the symbols for the reality, however, you will program your experience, and you will insist that each forest look like the pictures in your book. [...]

[...] It is indeed important that you reread the sessions, and Ruburt’s improved reading status today (when Jane read yesterday’s session after lunch today) should at least give you a glimmer of the improvements that are possible—improvements that will indeed occur as you continue with our “program.” [...]

[...] And in a gathering, say, of three people watching the same TV drama, each of them might be interpreting different portions of the program so that those portions correlate with their individual dreams of the night before, and serve to bring them their dream messages in ways they can accept.

[...] The short story referred to above was reported on a TV program about Three Mile Island: Jane and I caught a glimpse of, I believe, a local newspaper or magazine in the Harrisburg area that had printed a short story about a nuclear accident at that plant, on the same day that the troubles began at Three Mile Island. [...]

Science itself often displays compulsive and ritualistic behavior, to the point of programming its own paths of reasoning, so that they cover safe ground, and steadfastly ignore the great inner forces of spontaneity that make science — or any discipline — possible. [...]

[...] It does not exist, then—the genetic structure—like some highly complicated mechanism already programmed, started and functioning “blindly,” so that once it is set into operation there is no chance for modification.

[...] “Programmed” genetic activity can be altered by conditions in the environment.

[...] You have little idea, however, how sometimes the most natural-seeming reactions are not natural at all, but programmed. [...]

[...] That challenge further activates additional motion: it is almost impossible to explain how intimately your psychological beliefs program your experience of events, or to tell you how to interpret them. [...]

[...] Science of course looks at it the other way around, as if your physical acts are the result of a robot’s mechanical, formalized behavior—a robot miraculously programmed by the blind elements of an accidental universe formed by chance. The robot is programmed only to survive at anyone’s or anything’s expense. [...]

Now: I give you both my congratulations for your progress thus far, knowing that it will continue as you follow our “program.” [...]

[...] In programmed societies where “each man or woman knows his or her place,” then the will knows which direction to follow, though other considerations and prerogatives might be ignored. [...]

[...] Whenever he improved it was when the two of you embarked upon a program together.

[...] Then you responded with the display of love and devotion, plus a definite program, embarked upon together.

(10:19.) The myths upon which you base your lives so program your existence that often you verbally deny what you inwardly know. [...]

[...] Why does science want us to live thinking that we’re creatures programmed only for the survival of our selfish genes? [...]

[...] It happened that a TV program was showing segments of various sports [the sound was off] at the moment. [...]

Ruburt’s eyes do continue their progress, and more and more portions of the body are being included in the regenerating program. [...]

(Yesterday’s session was mainly on the Sasquatch phenomenon, triggered I imagine by the program In Search Of, and I’ll probably take time off from Dreams one morning to get it done. [...]

I initiated programs. [...]

You begin to program sexual activity when you divorce it from love and devotion. [...]

[...] The program’s host and his cameraman stayed to film Jane’s ESP class that night. [...]

[...] When you use them (biofeedback, for instance) even to attain alterations of consciousness, you are programming yourselves, stepping apart from yourselves.

(Seth’s interesting remark that fictional characters may be manifested in some probabilities, may have been engendered by the In Search Of program we watched on TV from 2:30 to 3:00 this afternoon. [...]